Chapter 2

My phone started buzzing and woke me up, I sluggishly stood up from my bed and turned off the alarm on my phone.

I then took my phone and put on the flashlight because there was no electricity in the apartment until 8 a.m. and the power was cut at 8 p.m. every day.

I struggled to find my way to the bathroom due to the sheer amount of junk on the floor.

After stumbling around I finally found my way to the bathroom and put on the shower, after a couple of seconds of the shower head wheezing, cold water started dripping from it, I felt a rush of joy seeing that there was water as I wouldn't have to go to the bathroom at the end of the hallway.

In the dim light of my phone I took my shower and put on my uniform I stared at myself in the broken mirror and staring back at me was a lean boy with brown curly hair reaching just above his eyes with a pair of glasses that looked as if it was going to fall at any moment.

I stared at my apartment which was more like a storage closet with a bathroom, in the room was an old bed beside it was a little table, and beside the doorway was a wardrobe where I kept my few clothes, and that was all in the room, excluding what's left of a broken mirror.

I then left the room and started my way to school, The school wasn't too far and I could reach the school in about 50 minutes of light walking, although most people would take the hover bus I personally find that as a waste of my already scarce funds.

After an uneventful walk to school I was the first to reach the school as usual, but this time I didn't meet the usual empty hallways

Instead, I saw rows of soldiers lining up the hallways, each emanating a powerful aura, giving Klaus chills.

I was shocked by the sight but quickly shrugged it off as I remembered that today was the day the military was going to give the top ten people In the final exam their monster genes.

I was sure that only 8 of the ten people would actually be given monster genes as both Kayle and Quinn would be getting theirs privately because their families would be able to get them better monster genes, and ones more suited to their personality.

I went to the hall and took my seat and waited for about an hour before the others started coming in.

Kayle was the 2nd to come in and she gave me a nod with a slight smile on her face to which I responded in kind.

In about 20 minutes the hall was full with all the students in class 3, but only the top students were sitting at the front

After about 5 minutes of waiting military personnel started flooding the room, and a man with the rank of general came to the stage and gave a speech

After the speech, he took the top students to the school's laboratory and announced in a deep and powerful voice that sent chills down the spines of not only the students but also the other soldiers around.

"The bottom 5 students will get a grade 6 monster gene while from number 2 to number 5 will get a grade 7 monster gene and the number 1 will get a grade 8 monster gene"

There was a lot of murmuring, but the general silenced it with a single word.

"Quiet"

As I predicted earlier both Kayle and Quinn said that they wouldn't be collecting the monster genes of the military but what shocked me was when Kayle activated her monster gene

It was the rare ice glass spider it was a grade 8 beast not only that but it was very powerful if she managed to fuse their genes together 100 percent she would not only be able to use its ice properties but also use its glass webs which are extremely tough and since it's a spider she would also be able to use its venom.

The fact that her first monster gene was the ice glass spider shocked us, especially Quinn.

Quinn and Kale then left the laboratory, leaving the remaining 8 of us.

I was taken to a room where there was a chained and injured black lightning beetle, The black lightning beetle was like any other beetle except that it was almost as big as me and that it's shell was very strong, It gained the lightning part of its name from the fact that the places where his shell overlap which is it's weak point as it is in any other monster with a shell except that in these areas there was a constant spark of lightning there which protects it's vulnerable areas

This is one of the stronger grade 8 monster genes but it isn't as amazing as Kale's ice glass spider Still, it is a very strong grade 8, and it was a lot more than Klaus was expecting

I entered the room with a knife in my right hand and nervously thought of how to kill it, seeing that all its weak points were covered in lightning making it almost impossible for me to kill it

I then remembered a book I read the book said that the black lightning beetle's only weak point is its neck and I decided to try.

I launched myself as fast as my body could go and stabbed it in its neck and because it was chained and injured the black lightning beetle couldn't do anything

I then realized that there was no lightning on his neck and then I twisted my knife as it was in its neck

The black lightning beetle immediately fell down and died

-GLOSSARY-

*grades of monster genes - monster genes are graded according to the monster which it was gotten from , the higher the grade the more powerful the monster gene will be, ranging from grade 1(weakest) to grade x(strongest)

*Fusing genes - When a monster gene is injected into a person it will be fused with the DNA of the person, The percentage of fusion will be about 20 percent or less, the higher the fusion percentage the more attributes a person will be able to unlock. You have to concentrate and move each monster gene cell I to your DNA to increase your percentage fusion. but this can take a lot of time, there are drugs that can increase your percentage fusion but are very expensive. Also one does not have to reach a fusion percentage of 100 to be able to inject the next gene, its just that one a new monster gene is introduced the previous gene would not be able to improve.